"People are working, may have families in the future," said Stefan Kempe another well-known YouTuber of buy OSRS gold RuneScape who has over 200,000 followers and goes by the nickname SoupRS when he was interviewed. "It's an obstacle to the amount of time they can spend playing each day."
The game can be tedious. To raise a character's acuity from one to 99, the highest level, it would take over a week of uninterrupted play according to a thorough tutorial published by the game's developer. After they received more than just their allowances as teens, players like Mobley who works at the data center, made the decision to bypass the grind of leveling up their characters or the cost of rare objects, and the typically boring initial stages to the game.
Others like Corne 21, a 21-year-old software developer who hails from Arnhem, Netherlands, who was not willing to divulge his last name, put bets on gold, and later real-world currencyon duel against other players. "I have a love for money. In real life or in RuneScape, money is nice to have" he said in the course of a phone call.
Horn purchases a lot of his gold through middlemenwho buy gold in bulk from gold farmers who then sell it via websites such as El Dorado or Sythe. Horn estimates that he's spent between 4,500 and 5,000 euros on what he believed at one time was a gambling addiction.
As players like Corne or Mobley returned into RuneScape with the appetites and wallets of adulthood, the game's black market expanded. Players still reported the existence of Chinese gold farmers, however, there were others profiting off the revival in RuneScape's popularity: Venezuelans like Marinez.
On March 12 of 2020, Marinez began to apply at a school for police officers in Caracas which is the capital city of Venezuela and to pursue the career of a law enforcement officer. The next day it was announced that the Venezuelan government released its first two COVID-19 cases.
It then shut down all schools, sealed the borders between Venezuela and neighboring countries, and placed six states and Caracas in quarantine. Marinez was left stranded on the road and lodged at his uncle's house in a city more than 50 miles away from Caracas' capital.
After two months, Marinez came back to Maracaibo, "without any money in my pockets," he said. He tried to find a job but couldn't find any in an economy devastated due to RuneScape gold the pandemic. It also led to a prolonged economic crisis.
